
Rorschach
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Now straight off let me state that, while considering environmental and psychological aetiology (i.e. causes) as crucial to mental illness, I am not unaware of neuropsychiatric models. Let me also state that this thread is not about a blame game. However that said I feel I am drawn to question the almost religious devotion to the biomedical model. I know that in my case it has allowed people to explain away difficult situations, to blame the illness. Not only does it allow people close to patients an explanation to difficulties faced with loved one, it attributes anything you want 'to the illness'. My mom had a tendency to 'blame' everything on my illness; it allows her to gloss over deep rooted difficulties in our family. The scheme is to get everyone to buy into that explanation and allow people to move on, start afresh, nobody is too blame, bla bla bla.
Freud is quite an odd fellow and I don't buy into everything he says. There is however one cognitive hypothesis that seems so simple in its truth. It's called 'Gedankenschreck' which roughly translates as 'fear of thinking'. Contextually it means that people are scared of the hard questions, of psychological insight, of facing a truth, so in response they dress up a lie in acceptable clothing.
Tuppence.
Freud is quite an odd fellow and I don't buy into everything he says. There is however one cognitive hypothesis that seems so simple in its truth. It's called 'Gedankenschreck' which roughly translates as 'fear of thinking'. Contextually it means that people are scared of the hard questions, of psychological insight, of facing a truth, so in response they dress up a lie in acceptable clothing.
Tuppence.